UTSOA Calendar

Studio Lotteries : Monday, January 14, 2008

Vertical Studios (393/394): 1pm, GOL 3.120

Technical Communication (560T/696): 3 pm, GOL 3.120

Advanced Design (560R/696): 3:30 pm, GOL 3.120

Design II (310L): 10 am, GOL 2.110

Design IV (520L): 11 am, GOL 2.110

Design VI (530T): 1 pm, GOL 2.110

Student Foreign Study : Monday, January 14, 2008

PRP Information Session : Wednesday, January 23, 2008

UTSOA Independent Travel Scholarship Application Deadline : Friday, January 25, 2008

For more information, go to the UTSOA scholarships page.

UTSOA General Scholarship Application Deadline : Thursday, January 31, 2008

Apply for a general scholarship at the School of Architecture using the online UTSOA Scholarship Application.

Landscape Architecture\'s History: Marrying Research and Teaching through the Camera\'s Eye : Friday, February 1, 2008

During the course of her academic career, Professor Mirka Beneš has documented a wide range of landscapes and supporting materials such as rare prints, maps, drawings, and written documents. From Professor Beneš\'s extensive slide collection, a group of almost 8,000 teaching slides—used in support of her two lecture courses in the history and theories of landscape architecture—were selected and, over the past 16 months, in collaboration with Professor Beneš, the slides have been cataloged and digitized by the School of Architecture\'s Visual Resources Collection (VRC). The selection of images in this exhibit represent a small sampling of images selected from the group of almost 8,000 that are, due to the generosity of Professor Beneš, available for use by the university community as part of the VRC\'s online Image Collection.

Mirka Beneš is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, which she joined in 2006. Her teaching covers the whole history of landscape architecture and gardens, and she publishes on Baroque Rome, Italian and French gardens, agrarian landscapes, and modernist landscape architecture. From 1988 to 2005, she taught at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, latterly as Associate Professor.

Daniel Bonilla : Monday, February 4, 2008

Daniel Bonilla Architecture and Planning
Columbia

Sponsored by the Patillo Centennial Lectureship

Mutations from Bogotá

Daniel Bonilla holds a degree in architecture from the University of Los Andes, Bogota, and a Master of Arts in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University.

Daniel Bonilla worked for the Public Space Bureau in the Local Authority Central Offices of Bogotá, the London-based office of Llewelyn-Davies, and Ospinas y Cia in Bogotá. In 1997, Bonilla formally established his own firm focusing on urban design, architecture, and industrial design. Diverse projects include competition entries such as the commission for Colombia\'s Pavillion for Expo Hannover 2000 and the International Convention Centre of Medellín. Daniel Bonilla Architecture and Planning has also designed schools and university buildings for Colegio Los Nogales, Colegio Anglo Colombiano, and Los Andes University in Bogotá.

Bonilla has been widely published including in The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, 10x10x2, Architectural Review, Arquine, -40 A Young Generation of International Architecture, ARS Sacra, and others.

Awards include selection for the 17th, 18th, and 19th Colombian Architecture Biennales (including Honorable Mention at the 18th), Assesit Emerging Architect, best architectural work at the 3rd and 4th Iberoamerican Architecture and Engineering Biennale, Highly Commended and Prize Winner at the AR+D Awards in 2002 and 2004, Special Mention at the 3rd Frate Sole Foundation Award in 2004, Honor Mentions at the International Biennale of Quito in Ecuador in 2002 and 2004, and Colombia\'s Steel Blue Pencil in 2006.

Daniel Bonilla has lectured at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Danish Royal Academy, Harvard University and several institutes and universities in Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Chile.

AIAS Mentor Event : Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Each semester, the AIAS chapter and the Career Services Center connect AIA practicing professionals with current student members wishing to gain knowledge of the workplace and valuable insight from a mentor.

At this informal event, students are introduced to their mentor and group discussions allow everyone an opportunity to ask questions and gain insight.

Everyone is invited! Even if you have not requested a mentor, please join us for a casual evening of light refreshments and networking opportunities.

Career Development Seminars: Resume Writing : Friday, February 8, 2008

Your resume has less than 10 seconds to impress an employer. Learn how to make those seconds count, and get the interview!

Career development seminars are held for students and alumni to prepare for their professional job search.

These seminars are all scheduled on Friday, 12:00-1:00pm.
For each seminar you may RSVP for lunch, by contacting:
Monique R. Mehta | 2.126 Sutton Hall | 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

Lessons from Rome : Monday, February 11, 2008

The Work of Robert Venturi, Tod Williams, Thomas Phifer, and Paul Lewis

exhibit made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Masonry Restoration Workshop : Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Cathedral Stone Products will provide a masonry restoration workshop for architects, conservators, contractors and other preservation professionals. This 2-hour workshop provides information about masonry patching, including:

Selection of appropriate materials
Onsite and laboratory testing
Developing specifications
Estimating project costs
Project supervision

This workshop includes demonstrations and hands-on training. Cleaning and paint stripping also will be discussed. AIA/CES learning units are available.

The Masonry Restoration Workshop is sponsored by the Student Historic Preservation Association, University of Texas School of Architecture. Cathedral Stone Products Inc. is a leading supplier of masonry restoration products.

Contact Fran Gale (fgale@austin.utexas.edu 512-475-6963), Director of the Architectural Conservation Laboratory, to sign up for the workshop.

CRP Networking Event : Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Community and Regional Planning Student Organization and the Career Center invite all CRP students and professionals from related fields to the Fall CRP Networking Happy Hour!

Join us to meet and network with fellow students and professionals with interests in
land use planning, community and economic development, transportation, site design, historic preservation, environmental planning, and GIS.

To RSVP contact Monique Mehta at 512.471.5686 or moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

Opening Reception: \"Landscape Architecture\'s History\" : Thursday, February 14, 2008

Opening reception the Visual Resources Collection\'s new exhibit, "Landscape Architecture\'s History: Marrying Research and Teaching through the Camera\'s Eye."

Career Development Seminars: Get the Interview : Friday, February 15, 2008

How can I get an interview? Is it enough to send in a resume and sample work?

Career development seminars are held for students and alumni to prepare for their professional job search. These seminars are all scheduled on Friday, 12:00-1:00pm.

For each seminar you may RSVP for lunch, by contacting: Monique R. Mehta | 2.126 Sutton Hall | 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

Books

A special Books & Buildings event recognizing four books and five authors from the School will take place on Tuesday, February 19, from 4-6:30 p.m. in the Harry Ransom Center’s Prothro Theatre.

Authors/books being recognized are:

Hal Box, Think Like an Architect
Dean Almy, Center: On Landscape Urbanism
Richard Cleary, Bridges
Kent Butler and Fritz Steiner, Planning and Urban Design Standards

Career Development Seminars: Interviewing Preparation : Friday, February 22, 2008

You only get ONE chance to make a FIRST impression! Learn how to make it last and get the job!

Career development seminars are held for students and alumni to prepare for their professional job search. These seminars are all scheduled on Friday, 12:00-1:00pm.

For each seminar you may RSVP for lunch, by contacting: Monique R. Mehta | 2.126 Sutton Hall | 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

The Civil Rights Movement: Overcoming Transportation Barriers : Friday, February 22, 2008

Brown Bag Lecture

Lecturer:
Talia McCray
Professor, UT School of Architecture, Community and Regional Planning Program

Please join the Diversity Council of the Community and Regional Planning program as we celebrate Black History Month by providing a series of important conversations around the issues of social equity and justice.

The Civil Rights Movement was a critical part of US history, but what does it have to do with transportation? Join us as we discuss the Civil Rights Movement and its implications on transportation planning and social justice.

Joan Busquets : Monday, February 25, 2008

BAU-B Arquitectura/Urbanisme
Barcelona, Spain

Designing Cities in the Postindustrial Context...

Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project (2007), edited by Joan Busquets, is the outcome of extensive research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the methods and tools with which designers currently shape cities and open territories. The catalog documents the most significant, worldwide case studies of each approach and traces back to precedents and references, establishing a theoretical framework and critical assessment of each line of work. The research serves as an additional initiative to develop a stronger urban culture that is more attuned to a post-industrial condition and acknowledges its inherent potential for unprecedented forms of urbanity.

Joan Busquets is the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard GSD. Prior to this, Joan Busquets was Professor of Town Planning in the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. Professionally based in Barcelona since the 1970s, Joan Busquets received his degree in architecture (1969) and his doctoral degree (1975) from the University of Barcelona.

A world-renowned urban planner, urban designer and architect, Joan Busquets served as head of urban planning for the Barcelona City Council during the formative years and in the preparations for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Joan Busquets has participated in strategic urban planning and design for the cities of Den Haag, Lisbon, Marseille, Rotterdam, Singapore, and São Paulo; and he has completed projects for the modern center of Trento, Italy and Villanova, Spain. He was awarded the National Urbanism Prize in 1981 and 1983 and the European Gubbio Prize in 2000.

Joan Busquets has published many articles and books, including The Old Town of Barcelona: a past with a future (2003), Barcelona: the Urban Evolution of a Compact City (2005), New Orleans: Strategies for a City in Soft Land (2005), and A Coruña: A Maritime City in the Port (2006).

sponsored by Dallas Urban Laboratory

Mock Interviews : Tuesday, February 26, 2008

For students who are eager for the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the job search process, this is an excellent opportunity to prepare for Career Week 2008 interviews! Practicing professionals will be on campus to hold mock interviews with students. The mock interview session will be approximately 45 minutes. In the first 20 minutes you will be interviewed, and the remaining 20 minutes allows time for feedback and recommendations. Bring your resume and dress professionally!

Mock interviews will take place February 26-28, 12:30-5:00pm.

Mock Interviews : Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Mock interviews will take place February 26-28, 12:30-5:00pm.

Mock Interviews : Thursday, February 28, 2008

Mock interviews will take place February 26-28, 12:30-5:00pm.

Career Development Seminars: Hidden Job Market : Friday, February 29, 2008

Only 15% of jobs are ever advertised… Learn how to find the other 85%, and ensure you are in the right place at the right time!

Career development seminars are held for students and alumni to prepare for their professional job search. These seminars are all scheduled on Friday, 12:00-1:00pm.

For each seminar you may RSVP for lunch, by contacting: Monique R. Mehta | 2.126 Sutton Hall | 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

Explore UT : Saturday, March 1, 2008

Explore the School of Architecture by taking a tour, visiting the Materials Lab, build a fort, make a t-shirt, and participate in other activites. The Explore UT site has a list of all the events for the day.

Career Week : Tuesday, March 4, 2008

This unique career event allows employers to review resumes and work samples prior to their recruiting visit and offer first round interviews on campus to a pre-selected group of candidates. Students from every School of Architecture curriculum will submit their resumes in search of internship, part-time, and full-time opportunities. Interviews will be held in the Interview Suites of the Ford Career Center in the McCombs School of Business.

For more information, please contact Carrie O\'Malley at carrie.omalley@austin.utexas.edu

Sustainable Urbanism Symposium : Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Strategies for Greening the Metropolis

Please join the Center for Sustainable Development on March 4 and 5 for the Sustainable Urbanism Symposium. The event will include a plenary talk from distinguished guest Andrew Jamison (Aalborg University) as well as presentations by several UT graduate students who are studying the challenges and opportunities associated with creating more sustainable cities.

This event is free and open to the public. The schedule of events is as follows:

TUESDAY, MARCH 4
5:00 pm Plenary Talk: Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University, Denmark

"Cultural Tensions in Sustainable Urbanism: Hubris, Habitus, and the Hybrid Imagination"

The quest for sustainable urban development has been filled with cultural tensions. Long-established modes of operation often contradict the ideas of "green" planners and city officials. Drawing on a conceptual model developed in the book Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science (co-authored with Mikael Hard), Dr. Jamison will explore some of the underlying tensions in sustainable urbanism, with examples taken from Malmo, Sweden, touted as one of the greenest cities in Europe.

6:30pm Reception with graduate student posters

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5
9:00am Session A: Implications of Urban Sustainability Policies

Barbara Wilson, "Democratized Sustainability: Social Movements and the City"
Rebecca Webber, "Choosing Green: Diversity and the Importance of Equitable Public Policy in Green Incentive Programs"
Wil Srubar, "Communicating the Importance and Principles of Sustainability to Civil Engineers"

10:30am Session B: Creating the Sustainable Metropolis

Marcel Dulay, "Sustainability, Environment, and Quality of Life in U.S.-Mexican Cities as a Result of NAFTA?"
Elizabeth Walsh, "Green Growth for All? Social Justice Opportunities in \'Green\' Urban Development"
Adam Roy, "The Role of Public/Private Partnership in the Diffusion of Sustainability: A Seaholm Power Plant Case Study"

Sponsored by the UT Center for Sustainable Development

For more information, contact Andy Karvonen (karvonen@mail.utexas.edu)

Career Week : Wednesday, March 5, 2008

For more information, please contact Carrie O\'Malley at carrie.omalley@austin.utexas.edu

Career Week Networking Reception : Wednesday, March 5, 2008

More than 50 recruiters will be on campus for a Networking Reception during Career Week! These employers are anxious to mix with students in search of talent for internships and full-time entry level positions. Don\'t miss this opportunity to develop your network...and possibly get an interview with a dynamic firm!

Everyone is invited!
To RSVP contact Monique Mehta: 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu
Dress: Business Casual

The Career EXPO is free to all students, faculty and staff.

Career Week : Thursday, March 6, 2008

Shannon Nichol -- CANCELLED : Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Director, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd
Seattle, WA

This lecture will be rescheduled for later in the semester.
An announcement of the new date and time will be forthcoming.

Intuition and Integration in Landscape

Shannon Nichol will discuss the design process behind several recent projects by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. She will share some experiences in balancing the rigor of site-derived conceptual logic with the allowance of intuitive moves—personal artistic impulses. The pursuit of integration—absorbing as many required site elements as possible into one, readable landform—will also be discussed in the context of urban sites.

Shannon Nichol\'s site-specific landscape designs can be found in cities throughout the world. Shannon\'s clear, distinct concepts have inspired and unified complex, interdisciplinary projects, from rooftop parks to neighborhood master plans. Her work has been widely recognized for its fluent relationship with distinctive architectural contexts and for incorporating high intensities of use into fluidly cohesive environments.

In Shannon\'s work, a site\'s history, form, and uses are interpreted as physical manipulators that form a unique "body" of land. Even in a neglected or disturbed site, where little visible evidence may initially attest to the natural and cultural uniqueness of the piece of land, Shannon promotes and emboldens the site\'s story into an elegant landmark for public experience.

Shannon is a founding partner of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. Recent examples of Shannon\'s work as Design Partner may be found in such projects as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus, Chicago\'s Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, Boston\'s North End Parks, and the McCaw Hall Opera House in Seattle. In addition to frequent lecturing at universities and design conferences, Shannon regularly serves on design-award juries for national and local chapters of the ASLA and AIA. She has held positions on several appointed boards, including design-advisory committees for Seattle\'s historic 1962 World\'s Fair campus (Seattle Center).

sponsored by Kamrath Lectureship

Career Development Seminars: The Best Offer : Friday, March 21, 2008

It’s a hot market! Understand the offers and be confident in asking for what you’re worth. Learn to identify and negotiate the Best Offer!

Career development seminars are held for students and alumni to prepare for their professional job search. These seminars are all scheduled on Friday, 12:00-1:00pm.

For each seminar you may RSVP for lunch, by contacting: Monique R. Mehta | 2.126 Sutton Hall | 512.471.5686 | moniquemehta@austin.utexas.edu

Liat Margolis and Alexander Robinson : Monday, March 24, 2008

Cambridge, MA

Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture

Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovative approaches to material technologies within the field of landscape architecture. The selected projects and materials exhibit a contemporary demand for technological landscapes and the collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists and ecologists. Living Systems proposes a synthesis between technology and theory, and redefines the conventional boundaries of landscape materiality by focusing on its dynamic attributes, such as: growth, flow, metabolism, climate, and atmospheric phenomena.

Liat Margolis is the former Director of Material Research at Material ConneXion, an innovative multi-industry materials research and consulting company. Liat earned her BFA in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and her Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard\'s Graduate School of Design (GSD). She currently manages GSD\'s Materials Collection, a material research lab, and practices landscape architecture at Hargreaves Associates in Cambridge, MA.

Alexander Robinson studied fine arts and computer science at Swarthmore College and earned his Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard\'s Graduate School of Design. Alexander led numerous urban landscape technology and planning research projects with Harvard\'s Center forTechnology and Environment. As former landscape architect with Mia Lehrer + Associates, he helped author the Los Angeles River and Compton Creek Master Plans. Alexander currently works for SWA Group in Los Angeles, CA.

Liat and Alexander began their collaboration while attending the Harvard Graduate School of Design Landscape Architecture program. They both were a part of a student group that received the ASLA honor award for a landscape-planning project Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlán, Mexico. They also led the GSD student collaborative, featured in the 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: The Flood.

sponsored by the Jessen Lectureship

A.D. Stenger: Designer | Builder : Monday, March 24, 2008

Presented by the University of Texas School of Architecture and the Design Division of the Department of Art and Art History

Arthur Dallas [A.D.] Stenger [1922 - 2002] was a larger-than-life character who was a developer, architect and builder in Austin, Texas beginning in the late 1940s while still enrolled in the University of Texas School of Architecture. A.D. Stenger began building his houses for many of the creative Austinites of the 1950s and 60s including many UT faculty as well as legendary Austin humorists John Henry Faulk and Cactus Pryor, as well as movers and shakers such as Sue and Frank McBee, founders of Tracor, Austin’s first high-technology company. Stenger found that in order to build for his creative middle class clients, he had to take on the role of developer, architect and builder, a condition that has recently returned to Austin architecture.

A Central Texas parallel to the work of the California home builder Joseph Eichler, the homes Stenger designed and built had modern sensibilities with “homey comfort,” and were a response to a demand for affordable, modern design. The contemporary resurgence of the affordable modern home not only in Austin, but also across the country, is due to a similar confluence of conditions present in the city in the 1950s. These conditions include the reversal of the American Institute of Architects\' policy against architects\' acting as both builder and designer, a body of young, energetic, and frustrated architects who use design-build as a way to get their ideas into the world, and a hip, aesthetically conscious middle class clientèle looking for alternatives to mass-market homes.

Along with original documentation on several of the Stenger houses, the exhibit will feature five of his houses with new architectural models and rendered drawings alongside historic drawings, newspaper articles and photographs as well as video of Stenger\'s polar bear hunting expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Sponsored by Miller Blueprint, The Marye Company, King\'s Hobby, Jay Farrell, A.I.A. and the Heritage Society of Austin

For more information, please see: www.austinfieldoffice.com/Stenger or contact Riley Triggs at r.triggs@mail.utexas.edu

A.D. Stenger: Designer | Builder Opening Reception : Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Opening reception for A.D. Stenger: Designer | Builder. Exhibition runs from March 24 to April 25, 2008.

Non-profit

Marcelo Ferraz : Monday, March 31, 2008

Co-Director, Brasil Arquitetura
São Paulo, Brazil

Architectural Action

Marcelo Ferraz will discuss architectural action in his professional practice and present recent work concerning intervention in a built heritage.

Marcelo Ferraz graduated from the São Paulo Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP) in 1978. He is co-director of the practice Brasil Arquitetura together with Franisco Fanucci. The practice has realised a number of prize-winning projects including the Gelbes Viertel in Berlin and Villa Isabella in Finland. Projects in Brazil include the Polytheama Theatre, the Museum of Japanese Immigration, the Afro-Brazil Museum, and the Rodin Museum of Bahia.

Brasil Arquitetura recently won a competition for the construction of the Shalom Synagogue in São Paulo and the first prize of the VII International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo. Currently the studio is working on projects for the Theatre and Commercial Centre Bela Vista, the Railway Museum Mooca, the Praça das Artes addition to the Municipal Theatre, all in São Paulo; the Bread Museum in Ilópolis and the Vila Nova Esperança residential and community development in Salvador. The book Brasil Arquitetura Studio was published in 2005 and contains a range of projects by the practice.

Marcelo Ferraz is also co-founder and partner of the joinery workshop Marcenaria Barauna, designing and manufacturing wooden furniture since 1986.

Marcelo Ferraz collaborated on various projects with Lina Bo Bardi from 1977 to 1992 and with Oscar Niemeyer in 2002. From 2003 to 2004 he coordinated the “Monumenta” Programme of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture for the Restoration of Historic Urban Sites. He teaches at the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo and was a visiting professor at the Washington University in Saint Louis in 2006.

sponsored by the O\'Neil Ford Chair

Milton Braga : Wednesday, April 2, 2008

MMBB Arquitetos
Sao Paulo, Brazil

MMBB: recent work

Milton Braga will present recent projects of MMBB featuring speculative work based on academic research the partners carry out on the relationship between infrastructure and urban design. He will also present built work, mostly of small scale, that engages these speculative ideas.

Milton Braga graduated from the São Paulo Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU-USP) in 1986, took his master’s degree there in 1999 and his PhD in 2006. He has been teaching at the FAU-USP since 2001 and previously taught at São Judas Tadeu University—São Paulo and at the University Braz Cubas—Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil.

He has been a founding partner of MMBB Arquitetos since 1991. The office has collaborated regularly with Paulo Mendes da Rocha since 1995. He previously worked with Eduardo de Almeida Arquitetos Associados and Aflalo & Gasperini Arquitetos Associados in São Paulo and with Tectus Computer Graphics in London.

Milton Braga has won numerous awards with MMBB including Best Entry Award for the Watery Voids proposal for the 3rd International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam in 2007.

sponsored by the O\'Neil Ford Chair

Graduate Architecture Open House : Friday, April 4, 2008

Mirka Benes : Friday, April 4, 2008

The Larger Landscape and the Notion of Territory: Earlier Times and Now

Live Webcast provided at soa.utexas.edu/caad/forums

For more information, visit the Center\'s site at soa.utexas.edu/caad/forums

Eero Koivisto : Monday, April 7, 2008

Claesson Koivisto Rune
Sweden

Modernising Modernism?
Recent work by Claesson Koivisto Rune

“Claesson Koivisto Rune is a prime example of the power of contemporary design. Architecture and design are not only one
profession, but they also lose the scale difference that allowed them to be kept separate.”
—Antonelli, Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA, NY (From the coming book about Claesson Koivisto Rune by Birkhäuser)

The Swedish design partnership Claesson Koivisto Rune was founded in 1995 as an architectural office but is, in the classic Scandinavian way, multi-disciplinary, which means that both architecture and design are practiced.

Completed architectural projects include the Swedish Ambassador’s residence in Berlin, Sony Music HQ Stockholm, One Happy Cloud restaurant, Gucci Stockholm, Louis Vuitton Stockholm, Scandinavian Airlines Euroshop and private houses in different Swedish locations through Arkitekthus. Current projects include several private houses in the USA, Japan, Uruguay and Sweden.

Product designs by Claesson Koivisto Rune are manufactured by international companies such as Asplund, Boffi, Cappellini, Dark, De Vecchi, Dune, Franc franc, Italamp, Living Divani, Nola, Skandiform, Skruf, Skultuna, Swedese, Väveriet and Örsjö among others.

The work of Claesson Koivisto Rune has been widely published in magazines including Abitare, A+U and Interior Design and books such as 40 Architects Under 40 (Taschen) and the monograph Claesson Koivisto Rune (GG).

sponsored by the Swedish Excellence Endowment

Antoine Picon : Monday, April 14, 2008

Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA

Learning from Utopia: Architecture and the Quest for Political and Social Meaning

Antoine Picon will examine what can be learnt from the utopian tradition in order for architecture to regain political and social relevance. In this process, the very notion of utopia may need to be redefined.

Antoine Picon is professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and chair of the PhD Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the other of numerous books and articles devoted to the relation between architecture, science, technology and utopia.

Among other publications, he is the author of French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; English translation, 1992), Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d\'un classique (1988), Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (2002) and Marc Mimram Architect- Engineer: Hybrid (2007). In 2003 Picon edited, with Alessandra Ponte, Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors. He has received a number of awards in France for his writings, including the Medaille de la Ville de Paris and twice the Prix du Livre d\'Architecture de la Ville de Briey.

He is currently preparing an essay on the new perspectives opened by digital architecture.

sponsored by the Herbert Greene Lectureship

Faculty Candidate in Urban Ecology (Dooling) : Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Sarah Dooling
The University of Washington

lecture:
Urban Ecology: Research, Scholarship & Teaching

Faculty Candidate in Urban Ecology (Young) : Monday, April 21, 2008

Dr. Robert Young
The University of Oregon

10:00 Meet with SoA, ESI, and Sustainability Portfolio Program students

11:15 Meet with SoA and ESI faculty

4:30 lecture: "Crossing Boundaries in Urban Ecology: Pathways to Sustainable Cities"

Faculty Candidate in Urban Ecology (Houston) : Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dr. Douglas Houston
University of California, Los Angeles

10am Meet with SOA, ESI, and Sustainability Portfolio Program Students

11:15am Meet with SOA and ESI faculty

3pm Lecture: Diesel Truck Emissions, Land Use Conflicts, and Public Health; Challenges to “Growing Green” at Southern California Ports

Faculty Candidate in Urban Ecology (Simmons) : Thursday, April 24, 2008

Dr. Mark Simmons
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center

Thursday, April 24

1pm Lecture: Maximizing the function of urban green space: water, heat, and climate change

3pm Meet with SOA and ESI faculty

Monday, April 28

10am Meet with SOA, ESI, and Portfolio Program Students

School of Architecture Advisory Council Meeting : Friday, April 25, 2008

Final Reviews : Monday, April 28, 2008

For more information, see the complete Spring 2008 Final Review Schedule.

Final Reviews : Wednesday, April 30, 2008

For more information, see the complete Spring 2008 Final Review Schedule.

50th Reunion, Class of 1958 : Thursday, May 1, 2008